Hottest Teen Reads Right Now
A few of the hottest YA titles of the past month are in Overdrive!
The much-anticipated second book in Sabaa Tahir's Ember in the Ashes series has arrived, and A Torch Against The Night hit the bestseller list immediately, just like the first volume did. Tahir sets the story of Laia in a world reminiscent of Rome, a ruthless place where Laia offers to enslave herself at a military academy in order to find help saving her brother from execution. She meets Elias there, a boy unwilling to be a soldier, but forced into brutal combat. The two soon find that their fates may be entirely interdependent if they are to survive.
The Thousandth Floor has garnered huge buzz as the new It Book for teens. The gorgeous cover perfectly conveys the glittering, high-luxury world of the most elite of Manhattan in 2118, whose lives play out in the upper floors of the tallest of skyscrapers. But like so many stories set among the upper echelons of New York society, this rarified atmosphere comes with some deep, dark secrets. Addiction. Betrayal. Spies and lies. And above it all, the seemingly perfect life of the girl who has it all – except that one thing that is driving her to desperation. One of our teen selectors read this one this summer and simply devoured it, declaring it AMAZING. This one is definitely high on my list.
And finally, Ransom Riggs' beloved and bizarre series Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children is the latest YA fiction to find its way onto the big screen, and opens later this month, which brings a new wave of readers to his wonderfully strange world. Darkly gothic and filled with magic, you could think of it as a sort of Victorian children's version of Charles Xavier's academy for young X-Men. It's also filled with faded, worn photographs that enhance its mood and eeriness to perfection, making it a visual treat in its mixed media storytelling.
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